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Mary Harris Jones supported a strike by 75,000 textile workers, about 10,000 of the strikers were children ( CL4). People wanted child labor to end, so they went on strikes, and Mother Jones was a child labor activist, who was fighting for the end of child labor.
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The goal of this organization was the abolition of child labor ( CL4). People who saw the harms of child labor where trying to bring the attention to other people, and where trying to end it.
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Muckraker Jihn Soargo wrote The Bitter Cry of Children, exposing the condition of child labor. His book was one of the most read exposes of child labor ( CL4). People actually started to spread awareness, and when that happened people's attention on child labor was caught.
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Lewis Hines took a picture of children working in coal mines, and wrote a caption on the bad effects of working in mines. Lewis was bringing the attention to many people, explaining how child labor negatively effected the children.
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A devastating fire erupted killing 146 people in the Triangle Short Waiste factory. Child labor wasn't, children were out in unsafe conditions all day, and were often killed.
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When President Wilson was electd president, he ran on a campaign to encourage congressional legislation to stop big businesses from abusing their powers (CL5).
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The Keating- Owens Act was passed, establishing an age limit for the age you could start to work, and a time limit of a maximum of eight hours a day (CL5). People were aware of the horrors of child labor, and the government has takenaction, and has passed a law restricting child labor as much as possible.
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The government passed the Child LAbor Tax Law, which a tax on business owners, for having child laborers ( CL5). Although this law was overturned, it shows the governments attempt to significantly reduce child labor.
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By 1920, the number of child laborers was cut to nearly half of what it had been in 1910 ( CL5). This shows the progress America has made as a nation to reduce child labor, and how it's efforts worked.
